Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Dallas Morning News - September 14, 1888 - Page: 4

The State Press

  The Fairfield Recorder says of the death of Rev. G. W. Walker:
  The deceased was 80 years, was a native of Alabama, but was one of the 
pioneer citizens of this county.  He was a well-known minister of the Methodist
church, and was always a high-toned christian gentleman.  He and another 
minister (a Mr. Green) organized the first Methodist church in this county
thirty-five years ago.  His remains were interred with masonic honors on the
1st instant in the cemetery at Buffalo.

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Fairfield Recorder - Sept. 7, 1888

BUFFALO - Rev. G.W. Walker died August 31 at his residence near Buffalo.  The 
deceased was 80 years, 3 months, 16 days.  He was a native of Alabama but was 
one of the pioneer citizens of Freestone County.  He was a well-known minister 
of the Methodist Church.  He and another minister, a Mr. Green, organized the 
1st Methodist Church in this county 35 years ago (1851-Mt. Zion).  The deceased 
left a number of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.  His remains 
were interred on the 1st in the cemetery at Buffalo.